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Examples
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If America is content for him to squander money on clinging to power, bribing Taliban and fueling a narco-economy, why is it so fastidious about election rigging?
Simon Jenkins: Western Export of the Ballot Box Elixir is Pure Hubris 2009
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Circumstance requires a para-politics to regulate a narco-economy.
Simon Jenkins: My Thoughts on a Recent Visit to Colombia/Afghanistan 2008
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In Colombia the Americans achieved a sort of equilibrium because local politics was left to police the narco-economy.
Simon Jenkins: My Thoughts on a Recent Visit to Colombia/Afghanistan 2008
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Here too the west is intervening in a narco-economy that is destabilising a pro-western government.
Simon Jenkins: My Thoughts on a Recent Visit to Colombia/Afghanistan 2008
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I believe there is a narco-state, a narco-economy, but there is also a great hypocrisy in the Colombian political establishment because they sell the story that they are fighting drug trafficking.
Latest Interview with FARC EP Commander Raul Reyes Abhay N 2007
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I believe there is a narco-state, a narco-economy, but there is also a great hypocrisy in the Colombian political establishment because they sell the story that they are fighting drug trafficking.
Latest Interview with FARC EP Commander Raul Reyes Abhay N 2007
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I was there last month, and it seems pretty clear that the poppy opium trade is taking over the economy, that it's already become a narco-economy.
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Their deaths have already opened the door to significant consequences for Afghanistan's narco-economy.
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It remains unlikely that the Afghan government's counter-narcotics efforts will be robust enough to create the conditions needed to wane rural farming communities off of the narco-economy.
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If Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal wants to be successful in Afghanistan, he must take a strong stand against a narco-economy that is funding the enemy.
The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines Robert Weiner 2010
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